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Skipping Girl Vinegar are a Melbourne-based indie rock band. The band comprises siblings Mark and Sare Lang and their respective childhood friends Chris Helm and Amanthi Lynch, and are named after the Audrey the Skipping Girl Vinegar sign, located in Abbotsford, Victoria.
2004 - 2007 One Chance
Forming in 2004 they wrote and rehearsed solidly before playing live locally in 2006"Unearthed:Skipping Girl Vinegar". Triple J. 12 December 2007. . Once playing they immediately secured support slots opening for larger acts such as Bob Evans, Shout Out Louds, The Lemonheads and Something For Kate before releasing the single 'One Chance' and its filmclip. This single received high rotation on Triple J radio, and drew the attention of several major record labels which the band negotiated with before choosing to take their own label Secret Fox to the smaller, independent label Popboomerang with distribution through MGM Records.
2008–2009: Sift The Noise
Skipping Girl Vinegar recorded their debut album Sift the Noise over a 14-month period "in living rooms, bedrooms, kitchens and studios across Melbourne, as well as a beach shack in Aireys Inlet". Sift the Noise was produced and recorded by Greg Arnold, Brisbane-based producer Caleb James and Mark Lang. The album has an intricate library-book-style packaging.
Track listing:
1) One Chance2) Sift The Noise3) Fighting With Gravity4) Wandered5) River Road6) Cold Come The Nights7) Here Come The Lies8) Sinking9) Drove For Miles10) The PassingCritical reception
Upon release the album garnered positive reviews, cementing their position in the Australian music scene and opening them up to new audiences through the addition to commercial radio station playlists following its release. Rip It Up magazine in Adelaide and 'Rave Magazine in Brisbane both made the second single and title track their respective ‘Single of the Week’.
JMAG and the Music Australia Guide (MAG) both gave the album 4.5 stars. The title track was added to high rotation on JJJ and ABC local radio nationwide in February 2009. The accompanying animated clip for ‘Sift The Noise’ also received critical acclaim with Rage featuring it as the band's second ‘indie clip of the week’.
Mark Lang’s intimate storytelling and smooth vocal delivery is the centerpiece of Skipping Girl Vinegar’s music. Dedicated to his... [grandparents], who died during the recording of Sift the Noise, the whole album has an uplifting, redemptive quality to it, despite being made “during the darkest of seasons”. Dom Alessio, Mess and Noise
Dom Alessio's review mistakenly stated that the album is dedicated to Mark Lang's parents, who "died during the recording". In actual fact it was Mark Lang's grandparents, not his parents, who died during that time. This error was also echoed on several websites which also quote Alessio's review.
Skipping Girl Vinegar's debut album is so goddamned beautiful I really could punch myself…veering smoothly between rousing and ruminative, bittersweet and simply sweet its hard to find fault with any track here… The term 'crafted' is often bandied around in album review wankery, but in this case that's exactly what SGV have done with Sift the Noise. This album hasn't been 'layed down' but carefully lovingly embroidered. 4.5 Stars - J Mag
Following the promotional tour, Skipping Girl Vinegar embarked on another nationwide tour entitled 'Songs From Cold Places' that previewed songs from their forthcoming album.
2010 - One Long Week
March 2010 saw the release of the band's first single, the song One Long Week, which heralded a harder and more dynamic sound. The song was immediately playlisted by Triple J and other Australian radio stations.
Skipping Girl Vinegar opened the Splendour in the Grass festival. Days after the festival the band released another single, Wasted. This also achieved widespread radio airplay and heralded the beginning of their Drown It Out tour.
